Smithsonian staff work with local and international partners training the next generation of biodiversity scientists in Indonesia at the Indonesian Biodiversity Research Center (IBRC), created in 2010 to promote biodiversity research and build educational and scientific capacity in Indonesia. Funded by the United States Agency for International Development and the National Science Foundation, the program was founded by Udayana University, Diponegoro University, the State University of Papua, University of California Los Angeles, and the Smithsonian Institution. Curator of Mollusks Christopher Meyer is collecting species in Indonesia from dead coral heads, meiofauna from standardized sediment cores, plankton from timed plankton tows, and from Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) to inventory biodiversity in Bali. These efforts are part of efforts to build capacity at the Indonesian Biodiversity Research Center (IBRC), to train the next generation of marine biodiversity researchers.
LOCATION(S): Indonesia
Topics: Ecosystems
